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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 32   View pdf image
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& administrators Covenant & agree to & with the said William J. Jones his executors & administrators & assigns
to warrant & defend the said negro boy named John Anthony Brown against me my heirs executors
administrators, & against all persons whatsoever claiming or to claim in any wise an interest or right
in said boy, I have hereby put the said William J. Jones in full possession of said negro boy
by delivering the same unto him      Witness our hands and seals the 30th day of November
Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and fifty two                                       Hugh Maguire   (seal)
                                                                                                          William J. Jones   (seal)

    State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct:            Be it remembered & it is hereby
Certified that on this thirtyeth day of November Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & fifty two
before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in & for Dorchester County
personally appeared Hugh Maguire, he being known to me to be the person who is named
and described as & professing to be the party grantor to the foregoing instrument of writing and
doth acknowledge the said instrument of writing to be his act & deed, and at the same time
appears William J. Jones the grantee, or purchaser therein mentioned, & makes Oath that the
Consideration therein expressed is true and bona fide as therein set forth               In testimony
whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                                                James Craig J. P.


Rigby Valiant      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bill
paid  Exd  from    of Sale was received and recorded on the 15th day of December 1852 to wit
William Thomas          Know all men by these presents that I William Thomas of
Dorchester County and State of Maryland for and in Consideration of the Sum of three
hundred & fifty dollars to me in hand paid by Rigby Valiant of Talbot County in said
state at or before the Sealing & delivery of these presents, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,
have granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargained and sell
unto the said Rigby Valiant his executors administrators and assigns, my negro woman
Emma and her male child William as Slaves for life   To Have and To Hold the said
negroes Emma and William to the said Rigby Valiant his executors administrators and
assigns forever; and I the said William Thomas for myself my heirs Executors and
administrators, all and singular the said negroes Emma and William, unto the said
Rigby Valiant his executors administrators and assigns, against me my heirs Executors
and administrators and against all persons, whatsoever shall and will warrant
and forever defend by these presents      In testimony whereof I the said William
Thomas hath hereto set my hand and Seal this sixteenth day of December Eighteen hundred
and fifty two
Signed sealed and delivered                                                   William Thomas   (seal)
    in the presence of
       Noah Abbott      Charles Corkran

State of Maryland Dorchester County Sct:      On this sixteenth day of December
Eighteen hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace of the state
and for the County aforesaid William Thomas and acknowledged the above Bill of sale to be
his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned  And at the same time the said Rigby Valiant
appeared before me and made oath that the consideration set forth in said Bill of sale, is true
and bona fide as therein set forth                                                      Noah Abbott  J. P.
                                                                                                       Charles Corkran J. P.


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